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Russell v. Mercer County 2006 State Championship. Extremely cold game and Russell should have won that game, but for some reason decided they wanted to be a passing team in the second half. They sure beat Mercer to death though. I doubt they had been hit like that all year. I still say Russell should be the champs that year though. Mercer County had already consolidated, but they hadn't moved them in class yet. So really Russell was playing the 2A State Championship against a 6A school.

That may have been the coldest game with the wind chill factor that I have ever been to.

I agree Russell had their chances to win. I think Russell thought with the wind behind them the passing game would have been effective. Didn't matter. Once the ball was in the air the winds took control of it. Hindsight is 20/20 though. Russell was very effective on the ground against Mercer. Both teams were very physical in a very even game.